Joe Cornish’s ‘Lockwood & Co’ on Netflix innovates the world supernatural entertainment

Famed British writer/director Joe Cornish has shaken up the world of ghost stories with the netflix series lockwood and companyBased on the books by Jonathan Stroud and starring Ruby Stokes, Cameron Chapman and Ali Hadji-Heshmati.

Cornish, who wrote and directed the famous film attack the block I had been looking at the lockwood and company stories for over a decade before this project really took off.

“There was a lot of excitement about them and there was kind of a bidding war on them,” Cornish explained. “We tried to get it, but a major Hollywood studio bought it and a feature film was developed.”

While Cornish apparently missed out on getting the right for the first time lockwood and company book, He formed a production company with Edgar Wright, Nira Park and Rachael Prior.

“So 10 years later, there are now five ‘Lockwood & Co’ books and we’re looking for something to make it our first TV show,” Cornish explained. “Behold, the books have returned to the market. , so to speak, because the movie never happened.”

“So while I was in post-production on my film The boy who would be king, I called author Jonathan Stroud on the phone and sweet-talked him, and then we got the rights. And then we sweet talk Netflix, and here we are.”

He lockwood and company The world has aspects of our reality, but it is plagued by an epidemic of ghosts. Young people can connect with ghosts better than adults, which is why these companies have sprung up, essentially…